The project explores the colloquial connection between birds and psychiatric hospitals. Referencing the history of behaviorism, the project takes shape of the Skinner operant conditioning box* as a symbol of the dark age of psychiatry. In Skinner’s experiments, behavior was assumed to be a mere function of external stimuli without regard to the subjects’ will or agency. He famously conditioned pigeons to play ping-pong or develop superstitious behaviors —implying that with the appropriate […]
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Operant Conditioning
in 2019
